Möhler, Johann Adam

(1796–1838)

   Historian and Theologian.

   Möhler was born in Igersheim, Germany, and he was educated at Ellwangen and Tübingen. After ordination as a Roman Catholic priest, he taught at the Universities of Tübingen and Munich and, before his death, he was appointed Dean of Würtzburg Cathedral. He is remembered particularly for his Symbolik in which he took account of the theological contributions of schleiermacher, hegel and schelling. This caused offence among his more conservative Roman Catholic colleagues, but today he is considered to have been an important Catholic apologist.

   S. Bolshakoff, The Doctrine of the Unity of the Church in the Works of Khomyakov and Moehler (1946);

   J. Fitzer, Moehler and Baur in Controversy 1832–1838 (1974).